Birding in Port Antonio

Whether you go out on your own or with a guide, you will see an impressive number of birds in and around Port Antonio. Hotel Mocking Bird provided us with this list of species that have been sighted on their property:

  • ring-tailed pigeon (endangered)
  • Jamaican parakeet
  • chestnut-bellied cuckoo
  • Jamaican owl
  • Jamaican mango
  • black-billed streamertail (endangered)
  • Jamaican tody
  • Jamaican woodpecker
  • sad flycatcher
  • rufous-tailed flycatcher
  • Jamaican becard
  • Jamaican crow
  • white-chinned thrush
  • Jamaican euphonia
  • Jamaican stripe-headed tanager
  • orangequit
  • Jamaican oriole
  • Jamaican elenia
  • northern patoo
  • bananaquit
  • Caribbean dove
  • common ground dove
  • vervain hummingbird
  • loggerhead kingbird
  • greater Antillean bullfinch
  • greater Antillean grackle
  • northern mockingbird
  • greenrumped parrotlet
  • worm-eating warbler
  • ruddy quail dove
  • ovenbird, prairie warbler
  • grey king bird
  • Cape May warbler (migrant)
  • white-crowned pigeon
  • stolid flycatcher
  • northern parula warbler
  • black and white warbler (migrant)
  • American redstart
  • blackpoll warbler
  • black-throated green warbler
  • mourning warbler (migrant)
  • turkey vulture
  • black-throated blue warbler